英和和英

名詞

brick shithouse (複数形 brick shithouses)

1. (slang, vulgar) An article built more robustly than its function requires; implies an element of indestructability.
2. (slang, vulgar) A person with a well-developed body.
   • 2000, Shane Maloney, Nice Try: A Murray Whelan Mystery, page 75:

     Part Polynesian, part Melanesian, part brick shithouse. He crossed the gym with the proprietary waddle of a troll in its lair, […]

   • 2001, J. R. Parker, Winter Kill, page 9:

     He felt like he'd just slammed a brick shithouse.

   • 2002, Joseph Geren, Chastity's Virtue: A Michael Marcus Mystery, page 50:

     She looked really fine, a bonafide brick shithouse.